Friday, 9 November 2012

Ikat and Mondrian - My November Bee Block

I've never worked with, or even seen, Ikat fabric before so that's something really new for me. And then Dorothy's given us fab instructions to work along the lines of Piet Mondrian - well that set me off searching through photos I'd taken on one of my many trips to Tate Britain, London, knowing that I'd snapped a pic of one of his pieces there.

The Quilting Bee is the best thing ever, now I've got over my initial nerves at cutting into someone else's fabric and messing things up completely! It's so exciting to get a parcel of fabric and instructions each month, it really pushes you out of your comfort zones :)

I know what you mean, I was so nervous when I first started but now although I still worry in case the Queen Been doesn't like my block design at least cutting into the fabric isn't such an issue for me anymore. I have made a couple of blocks in muslin first though just to be sure I knew what I was doing.

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